Joe Tuman, a past and potential political candidate and San Francisco State University professor, assigned one of his classes to devise a political campaign ad that he told students he might use if he runs for office again. Tuman says he was being sarcastic.

Joe Tuman, a past and potential political candidate and San...

The class assignment San Francisco State University Professor Joe Tuman gave his communications students last week was straightforward: create a political campaign ad either for an imaginary black Republican congressional candidate out of the Central Valley or for someone real. Say, Tuman himself.

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